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Criminal

Jockey Did Not Rob Cabby, Prosecutors Concede

Apr. 13, 1999
By Michael Harris

Acknowledging they charged the wrong person, Los Angeles County prosecutors have dismissed an armed robbery case against form...


Litigation

Hyperion Contractor Sues City of L.A.

Apr. 13, 1999
By Lauren Blau

A company hired nearly six years ago to do construction at the Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant has filed a lawsuit agains...



Product Liability

SACRAMENTO - Six years ago, the California Supreme Court handed the plaintiffs' bar a major defeat by limiting liability expo...


Family

Statewide Plan For Collections Re-Energized

Apr. 13, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - On-again, off-again plans to link child support enforcement programs in all 58 counties through a single statewi...



Criminal

A judge's ruling that Los Angeles prosecutors should have been more diligent in gathering, and disclosing, information about ...


Public Interest

Reflecting on a Simpler Time

Apr. 13, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Dec. 24, 1969, was a slow news day, so a federal court hearing in San Francisco drew intense press attention ...



Administrative/Regulatory

Genentech to Pay for Leading a Growth Industry

Apr. 13, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In what would be the largest federal criminal penalty paid for health-care fraud in Northern California, biot...


Government

A 55-year-old man from Egypt who worked for the MTA for 23 years has been awarded more than $5.6 million in damages in his la...



Civil Rights

Full Disclosure of Grand Jury Transcripts Fought

Apr. 10, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Arguing that Santa Clara County prosecutors may be hiding due process violations behind a veil of secrecy, defense...


Criminal

Kidnap Statute Applies by the Yard

Apr. 10, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court held Thursday that a kidnapping can be charged even if the victim is moved only ...



Litigation

A former associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has sued the firm for wrongful termination, claiming she was fired fo...


Government

Brown Castigated by Parents of Disabled Kids

Apr. 10, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

OAKLAND - Feeling snubbed by Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, a group of parents and their lawyers who are suing the city's school ...



Public Interest

In Pursuit of Justice

Apr. 10, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

The ACLU Foundation of Southern California honored 10 Los Angeles-area lawyers Thursday for their efforts in protecting civil...


Intellectual Property

Drag Net

Apr. 10, 1999
By Michael Harris

Responding to a "mind-boggling," ever-growing wave of cybercrime , Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti this wee...



Judges and Judiciary

Judge Likes to Give Pro Pers Their Say

Apr. 10, 1999
By Susan Mc Rae

SUNNYVALE - C. Randall Schneider remembers a time when he abhorred listening to defendants. When hearing criminal matters, th...


Criminal

New Law Would Increase Penalty For Safety Lapses

Apr. 10, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - As investigators try to piece together what caused the February explosion that killed four workers and injured a...



Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Unfair Competition Suit Allowed

Apr. 10, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a case that could affect competition among many large and small businesses, the California Supreme ...


Probate

Judge Under Fire Asks for Reassignment

Apr. 9, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County Superior Court Judge William H. Sullivan has asked to be reassigned from his position as probate...



Insurance

An appellate court has denied a European insurance company's appeal of a ruling that California has jurisdiction over bad-fai...


Litigation

Suit Against Ex-Prosecutor Dismissed

Apr. 9, 1999
By Denise Levin

A judge Wednesday dismissed a whistle-blower lawsuit against former Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark over crime-scene ph...



Judges and Judiciary

Educating the Schools

Apr. 9, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Over several years on the bench in Santa Clara County's juvenile court, Superior Court Judge Read Ambler saw many ...


Litigation

Headhunters Target Law Firm for Non-Payment

Apr. 9, 1999
By Denise Levin

A Los Angeles law firm is accused of not paying a headhunter service that claims it is owed about $48,000 for placing two att...



Securities

Settlement Reached in Municipal Bond Case

Apr. 9, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Local municipalities signing to dubious development projects and well-heeled municipal bond underwriters that...


Criminal

An avid world traveler, Superior Court Judge Lance A. Ito wondered what would happen if he got into trouble in a foreign coun...



Real Estate/Development

After living in a rented home for several years, Tim and Kelly Liebaert of Bakersfield decided to carve out their own slice of...


Media

Court Turns an Eye to Use of Hidden Cameras

Apr. 9, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN DIEGO - The California Supreme Court took a hard look Wednesday at the increasing use of hidden cameras by the media, but...



Public Interest

Congressional Critic Accuses LSC of Fraud

Apr. 9, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - A recently released Legal Services Corporation audit has charged several of the programs the corporation funds, ...


Criminal

Keating Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges

Apr. 8, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Charles Keating Jr., the most notorious figure in the 1980s collapse of savings and loans, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal ...



Litigation

A law professor who lost her case against a developer after a secret tape recording of her was played at trial has sued the a...


Trusts & Estates

Public Defender Fired for Failure Of Confidence

Apr. 8, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County's Board of Supervisors fired Public Defender Margaret Spencer Tuesday in the midst of an investi...